Audacious vs Clementine

Audacious is a classic music player at heart that has not felt the need to weigh itself down with an assortment of unnecessary options. Advanced functionality can be attained through plugins available from within the program.

My audacious uses only 18.5 MB of RAM. It has a Winamp visualization style that's very minimized and convenient.

Audacious can switch from its GTK interface to one that matches the looks of the famous Winamp player. What's even better is that this interface supports any Winamp themes, which allows for more options.

Lets you play, delete and even change metadata of your music files.

It plays dts, aac multichannel, etc.

It's able to reproduce most of media formats without external plugins.

Clementine features competent tag managing for all music files, be it album art or just simple text entries.

Clementine is easy to get up and running with lyrics, equalizer, online info, etc., within minutes after installation.

A fork of the 1.X line of Amarok, Clementine favours usability over design trends.

Organizes your music folder based on the tags of your library.

There is a very good remote app for Android. The app lets you do a lot: from the usual volume controls to checking the lyrics on your phone. You can even download the songs from Clementine onto your phone.

Clementine includes support for services such as Ampache, Google Play Music, Spotify, and many internet radio stations such as Jamendo and Icecast. It's also possible to search all available sources (local and online) at once, as well as mixed content playlists.

There is a built-in equalizer with many presets from genre-specific rock, pop, and party, to experiences such as large hall and live. You can also tweak it yourself and name your own preset.

Clementine gathers the user's listening data to use for smart playlists. Clementine uses your listening history to play music similar to the music you play most - which typically is music you will like but maybe haven't discovered yet.

Users can format any of their music files to a different format with Clementine's built-in format conversion tool.

Fetches lyrics from several lyric providers.

Unlike some other players in this list, Clementine doesn't seem to go unresponsive in the Ubuntu 16.04 system and looks really good with options for Visualization too.

Clementine allows the user to move and organize audio files easily. Some examples include the following:

• It's easy to find a specific album song (find artist, select album, select song).
• It's easy to add songs to a playlist and queue the songs.
• It's easy to rename files from their metadata (artist, album, song number, etc).
• It's easy to add cover images.
• There are options to find duplicates, untagged songs, etc.